This page groups tarot spreads by the period in which each layout was first devised. Wikipedia notes "the emergence of custom decks for use in divination via tarot card reading and cartomancy began after French occultists made elaborate, but unsubstantiated, claims about their history and meaning in the late 18th century." Browsing by origin-period-start-year lets a visitor find every spread first devised in the same period.
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Three-Card Spreads
This group gathers the three-card tarot spreads, among the most popular and versatile layouts, in which three cards are drawn and read in relation to one another. A three-card spread is often read as past, present and future, or as situation, action and outcome, and lends itself to quick, focused readings.
The browser will find the three-card spreads the atlas gathers. The entries describe each spread's positions and how they are read. The atlas presents tarot reading as a modern divinatory practice; the esoteric use of the cards dates only from the late eighteenth century onward.
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1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Tree
Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptions
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